Siemens unveils a new generation of connected Sinamics G drives
25 September 2026 
Siemens is launching a new generation of its Sinamics G drives family, which is evolving from individual drive products towards connected motion technologies, designed to help machine-builders to master growing complexity and to cater for future developments. The portfolio, which will make its debut at the SPS exhibition in Germany in November, is claimed to simplify engineering and streamline integration.
The next-generation Sinamics G drives include: the general-purpose Sinamics G200; the compact Sinamics G210C for targeted machine applications; the advanced Sinamics G210X aimed at for pump, fan and compressor applications; and the Sinamics G210 “all-round” drive designed for a variety of continuous motion uses.
The new drives have been designed to simplify engineering and streamline integration. They offer scalable technologies for a variety of continuous motion applications and machine concepts. All of the products will share a common engineering framework and allow greater standardisation and a consistent user experience. Safety, cybersecurity and digital capabilities will be built into the drives to prepare users for future requirements, including the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
Siemens says that its entire automation portfolio will comply with the CRA by the end of 2027.
At SPS 2026, the company will be showcasing its vision for “automating automation” based on industrial AI. The aim is to achieve AI-powered autonomous production for all industries. Siemens says that moving from hard-coded tasks to goal-oriented workflows will empower industrial companies to automate tasks that they have not been able to automate before, accelerating innovation, increasing flexibility and productivity, and enabling more efficient use of their resources.
This will require expertise and innovation in three key areas:
- Industrial AI, which connects everything and takes it to the next level. It makes sense of the data from the real and digital worlds, allowing systems to operate at their fullest potential. It reduces iteration loops, and empowers people to make informed, data-based decisions.
- Connected automation, which brings Industrial AI to the shopfloor. It facilitates horizontal integration across automation systems as well as vertical integration between the shop floor and the digital world, allowing data and insights to drive operations in real production environments.
- Software-defined automation (SDA), which enables the scale-up of industrial AI.
Among the products that Siemens plans to launch at SPS are:
- TIA Portal V21.1, a major update to its automation engineering framework that, for the first time, decouples installed software from licensing. Users switching to the new version will no longer need time-consuming project upgrades. They will buy features, not versions. This new approach is said to simplify lifecycle management and to reduce engineering effort, while ensuring continuous access to software updates and security improvements. New functions of TIA Portal include: expanded Simatic Source Documents for easier version control and continuous integration workflows; a responsive design for device-independent HMI applications; and improved data block handling enhanced efficiency.
- Simatic AX Logic Control Engineering, the latest enhancement of Siemens’ Simatic AX engineering environment that offers software-defined automation for PLCs and motion control systems. Unlike traditional automation engineering, it uses software-based development techniques to reduce complexity, accelerate development and support IT-skilled automation engineers.
- Simatic AX Motion Control Engineering, which allows technology objects to be engineered in Simatic AX for the first time, resulting in workflows in an IT-like environment. Complete projects including motion control can be managed using software development techniques. Document-based configuration of technology objects provides PLCopen support and direct Git integration.
Both of the new Simatic AX Engineering extensions use a text-based approach with standard formats, plain text, CLI and scripting – helping to ensure structured project data and transparent processes.
Also at SPS, Siemens will showcase several new use cases for its AI-powered Eigen Engineering Agent, launched earlier this year, which performs automation tasks such as PLC coding, HMI visualisation and device configuration. The new use cases include ECAD integration and standards-compliant project generation to support its automation framework. Siemens argues that as manufacturers face a growing shortage of skilled engineers, AI-assisted engineering will be a key to faster innovation, improved productivity and greater competitiveness.
A highlight of the Siemens hall at SPS will be an Innovation Hub where visitors can see what can be achieved today, and tomorrow – what is possible when Industrial AI is integrated with technologies such as connected automation, SDA and digital twins.
To illustrate this, Siemens plans to bring two future scenarios to life: first, a pop-up factory demonstrating how contextualised data can be used by industrial AI and digital twins to transform the consumer goods industry. The “factory” will connects products, production and supply chains in an adaptive system that brings the digital enterprise to life.
Second, Siemens will demonstrate how the use of advanced approaches such as agentic AI and physical AI can create the basis for autonomous production of the future. This will be illustrated by an intralogistics application.
